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Do Not Disturb... Do Not Bother With...
Wow, rarely are pilots so bad that I can barely finish them, even at 21 minutes. Sure sometimes they are hit or miss. Or sometimes they are so good, you know that the series can't possibly live up to it, but rarely are pilots completely terrible. Guess what? "Do Not Disturb" is truly terrible, and I don't mean in just the "hey we are unfunny but we can fix it sort of way", I mean it's terrible in a "Holy mother of Christ, how did this even stick to the tape, when they were shooting it, sort of terrible".
Don't get me wrong it's not the actors, not all of them anyway. I love Niecy Nash, she's one of the best things about "Reno 911" but here she is given little to do, beside act and say some pretty stereotypical lines. Jerry O'Connell, completely wasted here, he needs to go back and make more "Young Hilary Clinton" videos. Here he's just not funny. Plus don't even get me started on Molly Stanton whom was the unfunny one in the WB's show "Twins", and fracking Robert Wagner. Holy god, what is Robert Wagner doing in this? Oh and by the way, they call him "RJ" in the series, isn't that what people call him in real life? Surely, he's not so old that he can't remember a character's name, is he? Nah.
The premise such as it is, takes us to the lobby and underbelly of a fancy New York hotel, where the staff grumble, and the super thin pretty girls who don't eat, fall off their overly high heels. And the biggest problem in their sit-com world, is a plus sized reservation operator, who wants to work at the all to thin front desk. so she can show off her singing talents. I hate to say this, but even the now defunct UPN wouldn't have bought this show, let alone green-light it for thirteen episodes.
Everything from set design to casting suffers on this show, I wish I could say, "do this and this and you could fix it" but short of giving a free neuralizer away with every episode, I don't think a lot is going to help this show. I don't see it surviving all thirteen episodes on Fox, so fans of Jerry O'Connell or Niecy Nash, had best save up for the DVD because I can't imagine it airing more than a couple of times.
I have to say, this show is so bad, that it makes the Caveman show seem like high art. Ugh...
Just my 2¢,
Kelvington
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Jun 20, 2008 7:32 PM
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